Clothes-line.



W. P. HENDERSON.

CLOTHES LINE.

APPLICATION FILED 13130.21, 1910.

1,@%2 84;5 Patented 001;. 22, 1912.

5 I I Q3 WILLIAM 1?. HENDERSON, F ASHEVIIJIJE, NORTH CAROLINA.

CLOTHES-LINE.

Specification of Letters Yatent.

' Patented ct.22,1t2.

Application filed December 21, 1910. Serial No. 598,634.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM I. HENDER- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Asheville, in the county of Buncombe and 5' State of North Carolina, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Lines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in pinless clothes line links, made of a single length of wire and having clothes receiving eyes and a spirally twisted spring clamp for holding the clothes, and having a strain receiving bar.

'The objects of my invention are: to provide a clothes line link having a straight strain receiving bar throughout its length, and having two clothes receiving eyes; and a continuous uniform spirally twisted spring clamp throughout therebetween, unaffected by longitudinal strain. I attain these objects by the construction of a link as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a plurality of links; and Fig. 2 an enlarged detail elevation of one link.

Referring more particularly to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the construct-ion of a link embodying my invention consists in taking a single length of Wire, preferably 34 inches,

' and bending it at, or near, the center, back upon itself to form two runs otwire; one

of which remains stra' 'ht throughout the length of the link. The other run being spaced away as at 2 and 4 and brought back as at 3. The second named run is wrapped preferably 1-,- or two times around first I named run as at 8, 5, 8, thus forming a continuous spring clasp, and about one inch of first run is bent back upon itself as at 6;

said second run is wrapped around first run andthe terminal end thereof. as at 7 to tie the parts firmly together. 7

The spaced portions 2 and 4 form eyes or loops into which the clothes are put and then drawn toward the center of link to engage the spring clamp formed by the wrapping of second run around first run.

The object of loop 6 is that the terminal ends of the two runs may meet'and tie at a point most desirable and most out of the way; it is also used to receive the next link.

Some of the advantages of this construe tion of a clothes line link over prior similar devices resides in the fact, that, at each half turn of the spring clamp may be placed an article; thus at least three may be hung in each link of the line, and each has the effect to bind the other tighter, and not only so but the articles-may be released by drawing them either Way, whereas in some prior devices, it is not so. I 4

It will be seen by the constructionv of a link as shown and described that the spring clamp remains unaffected by the longitudinal strain. A further advantage is that no part of the spring clamp is too tight for the most delicate fabric, and yet tight enough for' the larger and heavier articles. Said spring clamp being continuous and uniform admits the pulling of an article any desired distance thereinto necessary to fully stretch it out, thereby avoiding the'sagging of the article. I

I ain aware that prior to my invention pinless clothes lines, having clothes receiving eyes, and spring clamps to hold the clothes and a strain receiving bar, have been made. I therefore do not claim such aline broadly; but

What I claim as new and patentable is:

A pinless clothes line link made of a single length of wire, having a straight strain receiving bar throughout its length, and having a link connecting loop at one end and a clothes receiving eye adjacent thereto, and one at opposite end of the link; and a continuous uniform spirally-twisted spring clamp throughout therebetween, upon which longitudinal strains have no effect, substantially as described.

' testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LIAM P. ENDE RSON.

Witnesses E. M. LYDA, R. S. MGGALL. 

